A massive toxic algal bloom has swarmed China’s southern coastline, choking marine life, disrupting fisheries, and covering beaches in thick layers of jelly-like algae. The outbreak, fueled by warming ...

The 1-billion-year-old impressions have features similar to modern algae and indicate that photosynthesizing plants evolved at least that long ago. Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until ...

An curved arrow pointing right. One of China's largest freshwater lakes, Lake Tai, has turned completely green after unusual algae growth this year. Local reports say algae density is 38.7% ...

When the rafts are cleaned off in the spring, along comes the algae, which thrives off the leftover seaweed nutrients and the warm conditions in the Yellow Sea. Researchers think the reason for ...